Brigid Dwyer, MD

Board Certifications: Neurology, Brain Injury Medicine
Special Interests: Traumatic brain injury, disorders of consciousness, chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Publications:

Dwyer B, Zasler N. Post-traumatic cephalalgia. NeuroRehabilitation. 2020;47(3):327-342. doi: 10.3233/NRE-208006. 

Turk KW, Marin A, Schiloski KA, Vives-Rodriguez AL, Uppal P, Suh C, Dwyer B, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Head Injury Exposure in Veterans Presenting to Memory Disorders Clinic: An Observational Study of Clinical Characteristics and Relationship of Event-Related Potentials and Imaging Markers. Front Neurol. 2021 Jun 14;12:626767. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.626767. 

Turk KW, Marin A, Schiloski KA, Vives-Rodriguez AL, Uppal P, Suh C, Dwyer B, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Head Injury Exposure in Veterans Presenting to Memory Disorders Clinic: An Observational Study of Clinical Characteristics and Relationship of Event-Related Potentials and Imaging Markers. Front Neurol. 2021 Jun 14;12:626767. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.626767. 

Dwyer B, Katz DI. Neurorehabilitation. Semin Neurol. 2021 Apr;41(2):109-110. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1726458. Epub 2021 Apr 8. PMID: 33831969.

Mez J, Alosco ML, Daneshvar DH, Saltiel N, Baucom Z, Abdolmohammadi B, Uretsky M, Nicks R, Martin BM, Palmisano JN, Nowinski CJ, Montenigro P, Solomon TM, Mahar I, Cherry JD, Alvarez VE, Dwyer B, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Tripodis Y, Huber BR, Stein TD, Stern RA, McKee AC. Validity of the 2014 traumatic encephalopathy syndrome criteria for CTE pathology. Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Apr 7. doi: 10.1002/alz.12338. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33826224.

Katz DI, Dwyer B. Clinical Neurorehabilitation: Using Principles of Neurological Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Neuroplasticity in Assessment and Treatment Planning. Semin Neurol. 2021 Apr;41(2):111-123. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1725132. Epub 2021 Mar 4. 

Adams JW, Alosco ML, Mez J, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Kubilius C, Cormier KA, Mathais R, Nicks R, Kelley HJ, Saltiel N, Uretsky M, Nair E, Aytan N, Cherry JD, Nowinski CJ, Kowall NW, Goldstein LE, Dwyer B, Katz DI, Cantu RC, Stern RA, McKee AC, Stein TD. Association of probable REM sleep behavior disorder with pathology and years of contact sports play in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathol. 2020 Dec;140(6):851-862. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02206-x. Epub 2020 Sep 17. 

Qiu S, Joshi PS, Miller MI, Xue C, Zhou X, Karjadi C, Chang GH, Joshi AS, Dwyer B, Zhu S, Kaku M, Zhou Y, Alderazi YJ, Swaminathan A, Kedar S, Saint-Hilaire MH, Auerbach SH, Yuan J, Sartor EA, Au R, Kolachalama VB. Development and validation of an interpretable deep learning framework for Alzheimer’s disease classification. Brain. 2020 Jun 1;143(6):1920-1933. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa137. 

Dwyer, B., Budson, A. (2017). Major or Mild Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal Clinical Psychology.  Wenzel, A (ed), SAGE Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA 4(M): 1998-2001.

Dwyer, B., Katz, D.  Post-concussion Syndrome. Handbook in Clinical Neurology. Hainline, B. and Stern, R (ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands (submitted for publication).

Dwyer, B. Romero, J. (2016). Embolic Stroke with Visualization of “Paradoxical” Thrombus. J Journal Clini Case Rep., 2(4): 040.

Dwyer, B, Katz, D.  Disorders of consciousness after severe TBI: diagnosis, natural history, treatment and outcome with 1-8 year follow up.